SynthesisBMJ (Clinical research ed.)2025
Time to nursing home admission and death in people with dementia: systematic review and meta-analysis.
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25 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
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- Recognition of dementia as a noncommunicable disease is just the start.Nature reviews. Neurology · 2026Article
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- Uncovering sex patterns in BPSD among home-care patients: longitudinal findings from a population-based registry - digital dementia registry Bavaria.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Article
- Evaluation of distinct and similar pathological features between diabetes and Alzheimer's disease.EXCLI journal · 2026Review
- Assessing and cataloguing cognitive impairment in older potential kidney transplant patients: key recommendations from the ethical and legal issues working group of ELPAT.Transplant international : official journal of the European Society for Organ Transplantation · 2026Article
- Mortality following ground-level falls in trauma patients with dementia.Trauma surgery & acute care open · 2026Article
- Complex atypical caregiving: navigating the margins of unique caregiver roles and burdens.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
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- Secular trends in incidence, survival, and health status at diagnosis of dementia in Sweden, 2007-2022.Alzheimer's research & therapy · 2025Article
- Time to Death and Nursing Home Admission in Older Adults with Hip Fracture: A Retrospective Cohort Study.Journal of clinical medicine · 2025Article
- Comparative Mortality Risk of Aripiprazole, Olanzapine, Quetiapine and Risperidone in Alzheimer's Disease: A Real World Cohort Study with Treatment Effect Heterogeneity Analysis.medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2025Article
- Predicting hospice eligibility among dementia patients using language models.Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association · 2025Article
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Abstract
objectiveTo summarise available evidence on time to nursing home admission and death among people with dementia, and to explore prognostic indicators.
designSystematic review and meta-analysis. DATA SOURCES: Medline, Embase, Web of Science, Cochrane, and Google Scholar from inception to 4 July 2024. ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA FOR SELECTING STUDIES: Longitudinal studies on survival or nursing home admission in people with dementia. Studies with fewer than 150 participants, recruitment during acute hospital admission, or less than one year of follow-up were excluded.
results19 307 articles were identified and 261 eligible studies included. 235 reported on survival among 5 553 960 participants and 79 reported on nursing home admission among 352 990 participants. Median survival from diagnosis appeared to be strongly dependent on age, ranging from 8.9 years at mean age 60 for women to 2.2 years at mean age 85 for men. Women overall had shorter survival than men (mean difference 4.1 years (95% confidence interval 2.1 to 6.1)), which was attributable to later age at diagnosis in women. Median survival was 1.2 to 1.4 years longer in Asia than in the US and Europe, and 1.4 years longer for Alzheimer's disease compared with other types of dementia. Compared with studies before 2000, survival was longer in contemporary clinic based studies (P
conclusionsThe average life expectancy of people with dementia at time of diagnosis ranged from 5.7 years at age 65 to 2.2 at age 85 in men and from 8.0 to 4.5, respectively, in women. About one third of remaining life expectancy was lived in nursing homes, with more than half of people moving to a nursing home within five years after a dementia diagnosis. Prognosis after a dementia diagnosis is highly dependent on personal and clinical characteristics, offering potential for individualised prognostic information and care planning. SYSTEMATIC REVIEW REGISTRATION: PROSPERO CRD42022341507.
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